Sermon: ”The League of the Baptized” by Rev. Will Burhans on9/25/22

It all begins with water, the ritualistic way that the Christian life begins is the same way life begins, with water, the water of the womb and then the water of the font.  As soon as the gift of life is given with grace we get right down to business and say “let’s wash them for the forgiveness of their sins!”  The doctrine of original sin has fallen into disfavor of late and that’s probably ok cause it’s kind of a crummy thing for us to be saying that these babes enter the world corrupted by sin and are immediately in need of saving. And yet there does seem to be some truth there that’s worth studying and asking why do we in the church so often begin with sin?  What?  No grin playing above that chin?  Looks more like chagrin as I go to talk about sin.